- Was nominated Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 1982 for RAGTIME and Golden Globe for New Star of the Year in a Motion Picture in 1982 for RAGTIME.
- Dropped out of college when she was studying acting at Julliard in order to accept the ingenue role in ORDINARY PEOPLE (1980).
- As a young actress on the New York stage, McGovern was required in one play to pray over some candles that were set on a bed. Realizing that the bed had caught fire halfway through her monologue, McGovern kept talking while trying to pat out the flames. She thought she had the situation pretty well under control, when firefighters suddenly arrived onstage to clear the theater.
Quotes- On careers other than acting: "I probably would have become a veterinarian, or I might have lived on a ranch somewhere and raised horses, or I might have become more serious about painting, or I might have worked in a Burger King."
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